The Campus Recreation Center at the University of
Cincinnati ties together incongruous buildings into a unified
expression. Both keystone and connector, the building encourages
social exchange and harnesses flows onto the campus
green.

A folded roof-scape picks up the artificial green of the stadium
and establishes the main spaces of the recreation facility. The
edge of the stadium is repeated in the undulated shape of the
housing component. This element forms the urban edge of the complex
along the Main Street of the campus leading toward the campus
green.

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Weaving as a means of establishing flow to resolve the site's
disparate staccato informs the principal strategy for cohesively
incorporating numerous existing structures with the additional
square feet of recreational facilities, classrooms, housing, campus
store, dining hall, and varsity aquatic center, that are included
in this new facility.

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Photo courtesy Morphosis

Photo courtesy Morphosis

On the ground level three public pedestrian walkways through the
facility allow access and insight to the various programmatic
elements on the levels below and above.

Main Street develops into a passage through the building's main
entrance lobby, passing a climbing wall and juice bar and inviting
views up to the open fitness areas or down over the pools and the
basketball gymnasium. Along the east, a "Walk of Fame" establishes
a new access to the existing Varsity Basketball arena to the
south.

Photo courtesy Morphosis

Photo courtesy Morphosis

Photo courtesy Morphosis

The covered exterior path overlooks the new basketball gymnasium
on the west and the remodeled multipurpose courts in the Field
House to the east. To the North side of the stadium a bridge passes
a set of new bleachers which create outside seating space at the
entrance to the food court overlooking the field.

Photo courtesy Morphosis

Photo courtesy Morphosis

Photo courtesy Morphosis

Photo courtesy Morphosis

Three levels of student housing, organized in four-bedroom
apartments, are lifted off the ground on pilotis and look out over
the stadium, campus green and the activities along Main
Street.